I used these past few days to fill lots of my journal pages with reflections on 2020, and rest assured there was a lot on my mind that I had to jot down on paper before we are done with this year. journaling is a regular practice for me, but last week, I specifically focused on answering some important questions about this year, the challenges I faced and how they shaped me into who I am today.
We all have lived through 2020 in different ways and different places with or without certain people in our lives, but we all had a shared view on how tough it was. I had gone through many struggles and awful events, I survived quarantine living by my own far from my family when everything was going downhill, but all that I went through made me realise a bunch of things I would have never learned if not for the pandemic and the horrendous show that was 2020;
this year opened my eyes to my strength and ability to face hardship on my own, it made me feel grateful for what I have and where I am even if it’s not exactly what I wished for, it made me put into perspective the bigger picture of what’s going on in the world and feel blessed for my situation next to the suffering of other people who have lost their loved ones, the homeless,...